Long Runs Quotes

• The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Being Yourself, Responsibility, Personal Accountability

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.12, Westminster John Knox Press

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• My time on TV has been awesome; between 'Party Of Five' and 'Ghost Whisperer,' I've been severely lucky in great long runs on TV series that were attached to the heart and got into the audiences' hearts.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Running, Party, Heart

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• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  Thomas Huxley

  Running, Truth, Honesty

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “American Addresses, with a Lecture on the Study of Biology”, p.126, tredition

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Funny, Death, Running

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Running, Long, Affair

  A Tract on Monetary Reform ch. 3 (1923)

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• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Funny, Life, Running

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• It is difficult to violently suppress people in the long run, as the example of the Soviet Union and the Eastern European countries has shown.

  Dalai Lama

  Running, Country, Long

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• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Long, People

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Literary and political addresses”

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• The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

  John Major

  Patience, Running, Games

  "The Wit and Wisdom of Margaret Thatcher: And Other Tory Legends". Book by Richard Benson, 2010.

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• The quality of your work, in the long run, is the deciding factor on how much your services are valued by the world.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Running, Inspiration

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• In my 10 years that I spent out in TV and film, I had my shares of frustrations and annoyances and disappointments, but also I think it was, in the long run, it was very good for me in a whole bunch of ways.

  George R. R. Martin

  Running, Disappointment, Frustration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Love, Inspirational, Running

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

  Garrett Hardin

  Running, Mistake, Thinking

  Garrett James Hardin (1995). “The Immigration Dilemma: Avoiding the Tragedy of the Commons”, F A I R-Federation for American Immigration Reform

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Birthday, Running, Average

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Running, Witty, Government

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.149

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• Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.

  Bliss Carman

  Life, Running, Men

  Bliss Carman (1904). “The Friendship of Art”, Boston : L.C. Page

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• There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everyone go along to get along, but that’s not going to be very helpful for us in the long run in terms of solving our problems, and someone has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to the bullies.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Courage, Long

  "Dr. Ben Carson: ‘Someone Has to Be Courageous Enough to Actually Stand Up to The Bullies’" by Nathaniel Botwinick, www.nationalreview.com. February 12, 2013.

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• I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

  Benjamin Carson

  Running, Believe, Long

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• You know, I really miss sex scandals. They're generally colorful. They almost never mean anything over the long run. And while they're going on, the people who actually keep the government running are let alone to go about their business. Good old sex scandals.

  Gail Collins

  Running, Sex, Mean

  "The Sequester App". Interview with David Brooks and Gail Collins, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 06, 2013.

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• The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.

  Denis Diderot

  Running, Law, Long

  "Selected Writings". Book by Lester G. Crocker, 1966.

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• I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Running, Peace, Believe

  Broadcast discussion, 31 Aug. 1959

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• Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

  E. M. Forster

  Inspirational, Education, Running

  "The BBC Talks of E.M. Forster, 1929-1960: A Selected Edition". Book by Edward Morgan Forster, ‎Mary Lago, ‎Linda K. Hughes, June 3, 2008.

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• One of the most powerful feelings in the world is after a really, really long run.

  Ellie Goulding

  Running, Powerful, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

  Henry Miller

  Inspirational, Running, Believe

  Henry Miller (1969). “Mémoires, Plaidoiries Et Documents”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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